Reviewed By Liz

ISBN: 1594146411

Five Star
Hardcover - 5/16/08

DEATH OF A LOVABLE GEEK - A Dotsy Lamb Travel Mystery - Dotsy Lamb is staying at Castle Dunlaggan in the Scottish Highlands when the body of Froggy Quale, her new friend and fellow participant in the nearby archaeological dig, is found, stabbed, behind the castle. Except for a few minor grudges, no one seems to have a motive for doing this scholarly geek any harm. When all the castle’s guests come down with mushroom poisoning, the director of the dig dies, and Froggy’s roommate is wrongfully arrested, Dotsy has to do something. Chief Inspector Coates, in charge of the case, is getting nowhere. The solution won’t come until Dotsy understands what happened at the castle almost a half-century ago. Death of a Lovable Geek is a complex mystery with humorous twists and off-beat characters including a ferret and a kamikaze bagpiper.

Maria was born in Missouri and grew up in Eastern Tennessee. She attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, earning a B.S. in natural science education and an M.S. in plant physiology.
After marriage, she moved to Portsmouth, then Hampton, Virginia. She taught in Hampton until her retirement in 2002, teaching high school earth science, biology, chemistry and oceanography. As an earth science teacher, she acquired interests in gem and mineral hunting, canoeing, and camping.
Her daughter, Elizabeth, now lives with her husband, Nate, in Salem, MA.
Since retiring, Maria has been indulging in two of her passions: travel and mysteries. She has traveled to England a half-dozen times, twice attending the St. Hilda’s Crime and Mystery Conference in Oxford. She has toured Italy, Scotland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, and Turkey. She has worked on an archaeological dig in the Isle of Man and a dinosaur dig in Montana.

Check out Maria’s web site at www.mariahudgins.com.

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